Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.

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Two new books by female writers consider what endures after upheaval. Patricia Smith's "The Intentions of Thunder" and Kanza ...

A new play and a poetry collection insist on the relevance of a prime minister who died for championing peace.

Martín Espada transforms cemetery lizards into powerful metaphors for American imperialism in his latest collection.

Even after they’re gone, the people who truly see us keep helping us grow. Love, loss, and meaning intertwine to transform ...

Poetry is not easy to compose, nor is it easy to write about. Like music, poetry requires a certain immersion into the composition one hears via their ...

Days of Our Lives stars flooded the post with words of condolence for their co-star, as Galen Gering (Rafe) wrote, “Sending ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and ...

While living in Belfast during the early 1950s, Stephen said Heaney published some poems under the penname Incertus - which is the Latin word for uncertain - which were published in student magazines.